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Top 30 Websites That Make A Lot Of Money Online.......
Top 30 Websites That Make A Lot Of Money Online
Google earns 700$ per second !! | Attention this is 2009 list .
India’s maiden Mars mission on time: ISRO.......
Bangalore: Amid fears of a comet (C/2013 AI) heading into the Red Planet in 2014, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has said that its Rs 450-crore Mars Orbiter Mission, scheduled to be launched in November this year will take place as per the plan.C/2013 A1, discovered on January 3 by Rob McNaught at the Siding Spring Observatory in Australia, is crashing into the Mars in October. Earlier, NASA has said that the chance of comet striking Mars is1 in 8,000, but now revised calculations put the possibility of an impact at just 1 in 120,000.
“The comet could bring some constituents, but we don't expect any effect on the spacecraft. It will pass 50,000 km away from Mars’ surface. We will get more information on the comet in future and scientists are looking at all possibilities,” ISRO Chief K Radhakrishnan said.
The Mars Orbiter will carry scientific payload consists of five instruments (weighing about 15 kg):
Methane Sensor for Mars (MSM)
Mars Color Camera (MCC)
Mars Exospheric Neutral Composition Analyzer (MENCA)
TIR Spectrometer (TIS)
Lyman-Alpha Photometer (LAP)
According to ISRO, the tentative scientific objective for the Mars mission will be to focus on life, climate, geology, origin, evolution and sustainability of life on the planet.
The Mars Orbiter, which is expected to exit the Earth’s orbit on 27 November, will take over 300 days to travel towards the Red Planet. The orbit insertion is planned for September 2014 and would allow the spacecraft to enter a highly elliptical orbit of 500 km x 80,000 km around Mars.
India will become the sixth country to launch a mission to Mars after the US, Russia, Europe, Japan and China.
SpaceX’s rival Orbital Sciences set to test launch its own rocket........
New Delhi: An impressive 132-foot high rocket is set for a test launch on Saturday after a technical glitch and bad weather halted its previous two attempts.
Orbital Sciences Corp., the second of the two private companies hired by NASA to carry supply to the International Space Station, will launch its unmanned rocket Antares again from Wallops Island, Virginia, at 5 pm on Saturday. The rocket was initially scheduled to lift off on Wednesday when the countdown clock was halted at the 12-minute mark as the data cord linked to the rocket's second stage detached prematurely.
Its second attempt was called off again due to dismal weather on Friday.
The planned launch by the Washington area commercial firm was designed to test whether a practice payload could reach orbit and safely separate from the rocket. Orbital executives have said the tests would prove their capability to carry out several supply runs they contracted for with NASA.
SpaceX, based in Hawthorne, California, was awarded a $1.6 billion contract by NASA in 2006 to make a dozen restocking missions. SpaceX has linked up with the space station three times. In 2008, Orbital jumped in and was awarded a $1.9 billion contract for eight deliveries.
If ultimately successful in testing Antares, Orbital executives have said they hoped to launch a rocket this summer carrying its Cygnus cargo ship aloft to see whether it could safely dock with the space station.
Orbital is under contract to eventually deliver about 44,000 pounds of supplies to the space station and envisions making about two deliveries per year. Its cargo ship would carry about 4,400 pounds worth of supplies on its first three missions and 5,600 pounds on its last five.
Unlike the SpaceX's Dragon capsule, which is capable of two-way deliveries, the Orbital cargo ship is not designed to return with experiments or other items from the space station. Instead, Orbital's plans call for filling its Cygnus ship with garbage to be incinerated with the craft upon re-entering Earth's atmosphere. That's also what Russian, European and Japanese cargo ships do.
Microsoft most attractive employer in India: Survey.........
New Delhi: IT and software major Microsoft has emerged as India's most attractive employer for the third straight year in 2013, according to a survey by HR service firm Randstad.
The company was followed by Hewlett Packard and Google India in the second and third positions, respectively.
Others in the top 10 most attractive employer list included -- IBM (4th), ONGC (5th), Sony (6th), Larsen & Toubro (7th), Steel Authority of India (8th), SBI (9th) and Tata Consultancy Services (10th).
Special recognition awards were also given to Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) in the energy sector, Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL) in the manufacturing sector and Larsen & Toubro in the infrastructure sector.
The survey further noted that in a market like India, where there is high attrition levels, employer branding is very important as it provides an advantage to attract and retain top talent.
"In the current competitive business environment, attracting and retaining the right talent are vital to organisation success. We are extremely happy to see an increase in Indian companies focusing on Employer Branding," Randstad India Chairman Paul Van De Kerkhof said.
According to the survey that covered 7,000 respondents, Indian workforce prefer competitive salary and job security.
Compared to last year, there is a significant increase in the importance given to salary and employee benefits and this has become the most important factor for potential employees, followed by job security.
"The findings show a preference for competitive salary and high job security, and these are in line with current market sentiments," Randstad India MD & CEO E Balaji said.
Besides, competitive salary and job security, the other factors that featured in the top five are pleasant working atmosphere, work-life balance and career progression opportunities.
Dhoni never puts pressure on his bowlers: Mohit Sharma.........
New Delhi: Chennai Super Kings young fast bowler Mohit Sharma on Friday said playing under Mahendra Singh Dhoni is the best period of his life.
"It is probably the best period of my life that I am playing under his leadership. He never puts any sort of pressure on you. He always motivates you. No matter what the conditions are, he never puts any pressure on you. I have never met anyone more positive," he said.
The Faridabad boy was picked up by Chennai Super Kings after a good domestic season with Haryana. On Thursday night, he removed the top-three Daredevils batsmen David Warner, Manpreet Juneja and Virender Sehwag at the Ferozeshah Kotla as Super Kings won by a huge margin.
Having played against Sehwag in the past, Mohit exactly knew how to get rid of him.
"I have played against him twice and he has hit me for runs. I didn`t think too much, and like we had discussed and since he is a compulsive puller, we decided to bowl him a short ball and what we did paid off," Mohit said.
A day after his heroics, Mohit admitted being nervous ahead of the match.
Yusuf is a match-winner: Bayliss..........
Kolkata: Yusuf Pathan may be going through a lean phase in his career, but Kolkata Knight Riders coach Trevor Bayliss has no doubt about big-hitting allrounder`s ability and said he is a match-winner.
"Having watched him at the nets, I think he`s striking the ball better than last year. He looks more confident than last year," said Bayliss on the eve of Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings IPL match here.
"He is a matchwinner when he comes off, there`s no doubt about it. I`m trying to work with Yusuf to find what`s the best way to go for him and score runs."
The Aussie coach also hinted at using Yusuf at a different position.
"We might use him in a little bit different fashion in our next game or two. We just have to wait and see," he said.
Bayliss though admitted that the KKR think-tank was mulling over playing Brendon McCullum against CSK tomorrow, he was non-committal.
"There`s certainly a chance which is going through my mind. That is a possibility, it`s 50-50. We will wait and see. We will have a final check tomorrow before the game," the coach said.
He said that his boys became complacent and let it loose after Sunil Narine`s hat-trick in the last game against Kings XI Punjab that KKR lost by four runs.
"Narine`s hat-trick the other night almost came at the wrong time. They were 109 for seven and consciously our guys might have thought the game was over and would be chasing about 120 or so, and they switched off. I would like to see that stop happening again," he insisted.
Bayliss said his team was deeply hurt by the way they lost to KXIP in a match Narine took a hat-trick.
"It`s not a secret that we`re playing the way we would have liked to. The guys in the dressing room were hurt by the way they lost," said Bayliss.
"In a way, it`s good to see the hurt on their faces. To a certain degree, they were embarrassed at the way they let one slip there. I don`t think there`s any lack in effort. As long as you are giving in 100 per cent, you can`t ask for more."
"The guys can all bat. In 20 overs game, sometimes players don`t get opportunity to spend time in the middle. It`s just a confidence thing. Once they start hitting the ball in the middle, I`m sure the form will come," he added.
Bayliss said KKR would concentrate on what they do best.
"We will concentrate on what we do well. One of our strengths is the spin bowling. To be honest, it`s not the bowling that has been our downfall. It`s our batting which is a bit of problem.
"There`s still a long way to go in the competition. We had started reasonably slow last year as well. It`s important to play the best cricket at the end."
Playing under Dhoni is Mohit`s best period of life......
New Delhi: Fresh from his exploits against Delhi Daredevils, Chennai Super Kings bowler Mohit Sharma said today playing under skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni is the best period of his life.
"It is probably the best period of my life that I am playing under his leadership. He never puts any sort of pressure on you. He always motivates you.
No matter what the conditions are, he never puts any pressure on you. I have never met anyone more positive," Mohit said.
He picked up three wickets for 10 runs in Chennai`s huge win over Delhi last night.
The Haryana player dismissed the top-three Daredevils batsmen David Warner, Manpreet Juneja and Virender Sehwag at the Ferozeshah Kotla.
Having played against Sehwag in the past, Mohit knew how to get rid of him.
"I have played against him twice and he has hit me for runs. I didn`t think too much, and like we had discussed and since he is a compulsive puller, we decided to bowl him a short ball and what we did paid off," Mohit was quoted as saying by the IPL website.
Terror alert on IPL matches after Boston blasts........
New Delhi: After the Boston marathon blasts which claimed three lives, the Intelligence Bureau (IB) has sent an advisory to the Indian government on conducting matches of the ongoing sixth season of Indian Premier League (IPL).
IB alert stated that Indian government should take some precautionary matter to protect the IPL matches from the possible terror attack from Indian Mujahideen (IM).
IB has especially cautioned cities like Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, Mumbai and Delhi.
Earlier on Monday, two explosions struck one of America`s top sporting events, killing at least three and wounding more than 100 as the Boston Marathon erupted in a maelstrom of blood, screams, smoke and panic.
As cities from New York to Los Angeles went on high alert, Americans with ever-vivid memories of the September 11, 2001 suicide airliner attacks automatically wondered if the country had been hit again by terrorists.
President Barack Obama went on national television to say it was not yet clear who was behind the blasts. He said the perpetrators would pay. He did not utter the word "terror."
The Boston Marathon is one of the biggest annual athletic events held in the United States. Racers must qualify to compete and there are tens of thousands of spectators.
IB alert stated that Indian government should take some precautionary matter to protect the IPL matches from the possible terror attack from Indian Mujahideen (IM).
IB has especially cautioned cities like Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, Mumbai and Delhi.
Earlier on Monday, two explosions struck one of America`s top sporting events, killing at least three and wounding more than 100 as the Boston Marathon erupted in a maelstrom of blood, screams, smoke and panic.
As cities from New York to Los Angeles went on high alert, Americans with ever-vivid memories of the September 11, 2001 suicide airliner attacks automatically wondered if the country had been hit again by terrorists.
President Barack Obama went on national television to say it was not yet clear who was behind the blasts. He said the perpetrators would pay. He did not utter the word "terror."
The Boston Marathon is one of the biggest annual athletic events held in the United States. Racers must qualify to compete and there are tens of thousands of spectators.
When Katrina Kaif invited Ranbir Kapoor for a quiet dinner ......
New Delhi: Even after being spotted while visiting each other at wee hours or enjoying romantic dinners, Bollywood’s ‘most talked about couple’, Ranbir Kapoor and Katrina Kaif, who seem to be head over heels in love with each other, have never admitted to their relationship.
According to a magazine, Katrina, who planned a special dinner for Ranbir at her ‘home’, made sure that she had prearranged everything that he liked because she wasn’t aware what he wanted to eat particularly.
Well… Seems like Katrina is leaving no stone unturned in pleasing Ranbir!
Russian, Israeli mafia exist in Goa: WikiLeaks cable...........
Panaji: Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar does not believe that Russian and Israeli mafias operate in Goa, but Mumbai police are sure of it, WikiLeaks has claimed citing a recently declassified US diplomatic cable.
The cable dispatched by Mumbai Consul General Paul Folmsbee in 2009 quotes former head of Mumbai Crime Branch Rakesh Maria saying that trafficking of foreign women prostitutes to Mumbai is controlled by Israeli and Russian mafia lords operating from Goa.
"Maria alleged that most trafficking of foreigners to Mumbai is connected to Russian and Israeli mafia operations in Goa, explaining why Mumbai police had not cracked the trafficking ring(s)," Folmsbee's cable numbered 09MUMBAI305 back home to the US administration said. Maria is currently the head of Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism squad and was one of the lead investigators in the 26/11 terror strikes in Mumbai.
Earlier this week, Parrikar had assured the Goa Legislative Assembly that there were no foreign mafias in Goa.
"Russian, German or Israeli mafias are not existing in the state of Goa," said Parrikar, who was responding to a question from Congress legislator Reginaldo Lourenco.
Over the last few years, the Assembly has been host to numerous instances when legislators have alleged that foreign mafias have been controlling the sex and narcotics trade in Goa.
The cable, however, said that tracking the kingpins of these trafficking cartels was proving to be very difficult for Mumbai police, and that most Indian women who were trafficked abroad were disguised as "classical Indian dancers".
"Maria said that trafficking of Indian women abroad for sex work often takes place under the cover of cultural shows like classical Indian dancers. He said that many Indian women are trafficked to the United Kingdom on visas for cultural dancers, but use the dancing as a front to solicit sex," Folmsbee said, drawing a comparison to dance bars in Mumbai.
Dance bars proved to be good recruiting grounds for traffickers as women working there were willing to go abroad to make more money.
The cable dispatched by Mumbai Consul General Paul Folmsbee in 2009 quotes former head of Mumbai Crime Branch Rakesh Maria saying that trafficking of foreign women prostitutes to Mumbai is controlled by Israeli and Russian mafia lords operating from Goa.
"Maria alleged that most trafficking of foreigners to Mumbai is connected to Russian and Israeli mafia operations in Goa, explaining why Mumbai police had not cracked the trafficking ring(s)," Folmsbee's cable numbered 09MUMBAI305 back home to the US administration said. Maria is currently the head of Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism squad and was one of the lead investigators in the 26/11 terror strikes in Mumbai.
Earlier this week, Parrikar had assured the Goa Legislative Assembly that there were no foreign mafias in Goa.
"Russian, German or Israeli mafias are not existing in the state of Goa," said Parrikar, who was responding to a question from Congress legislator Reginaldo Lourenco.
Over the last few years, the Assembly has been host to numerous instances when legislators have alleged that foreign mafias have been controlling the sex and narcotics trade in Goa.
The cable, however, said that tracking the kingpins of these trafficking cartels was proving to be very difficult for Mumbai police, and that most Indian women who were trafficked abroad were disguised as "classical Indian dancers".
"Maria said that trafficking of Indian women abroad for sex work often takes place under the cover of cultural shows like classical Indian dancers. He said that many Indian women are trafficked to the United Kingdom on visas for cultural dancers, but use the dancing as a front to solicit sex," Folmsbee said, drawing a comparison to dance bars in Mumbai.
'Ignoring army's advice not to return to Pak proved costly for Musharraf'............
Islamabad: Ignoring the advise of the Pakistan Army to Pervez Musharraf not to return to the country has proved costly for the former president, according to a source in the army. According to media reports, about a month before his return, Musharraf was advised not to come back to Pakistan.
He, however, chose to ignore the advice, thinking that the institution with which he had spent his life would protect him.
It did not happen and now it appears that the army may not take any position in his case, said a report in The Express Tribune.
Army sources confirmed that he was warned of the consequences and dangers he may face, which also include serious threats to his life.
He was also told that his return may put the army in an embarrassing position as he would become the centre of controversies, the report said. During his self-exile, differences also emerged within Musharraf''s All Pakistan Muslim League (APML).
Despite all this, Musharraf decided to go ahead with his plan and announced the date of his return, a decision which did not sit well with the army.
The former army chief has perhaps misread the ground situation, thinking the institution he once headed will protect him, not just physically, but also by shielding him from trial.
So far the army has not taken any position but has certainly provided full security to him. This is the first time in Pakistan''s history that a former army chief and president, faced prison and possible trial.
He may now become the scapegoat for the events that unfolded from Oct 12, 1999 to 2008, the report added.
He, however, chose to ignore the advice, thinking that the institution with which he had spent his life would protect him.
It did not happen and now it appears that the army may not take any position in his case, said a report in The Express Tribune.
Army sources confirmed that he was warned of the consequences and dangers he may face, which also include serious threats to his life.
He was also told that his return may put the army in an embarrassing position as he would become the centre of controversies, the report said. During his self-exile, differences also emerged within Musharraf''s All Pakistan Muslim League (APML).
Despite all this, Musharraf decided to go ahead with his plan and announced the date of his return, a decision which did not sit well with the army.
The former army chief has perhaps misread the ground situation, thinking the institution he once headed will protect him, not just physically, but also by shielding him from trial.
So far the army has not taken any position but has certainly provided full security to him. This is the first time in Pakistan''s history that a former army chief and president, faced prison and possible trial.
He may now become the scapegoat for the events that unfolded from Oct 12, 1999 to 2008, the report added.
Musharraf moved from farmhouse to police headquarters.......
Islamabad: Hours after his arrest in a case related to the imposition of emergency rule in 2007, former President Pervez Musharraf was on Friday moved from his farmhouse to the police headquarters in Islamabad to fulfil the conditions of his transit remand.Musharraf, 69, was moved from the fortified farmhouse to the Police Lines or headquarters in Sector F-11 amidst tight security shortly after 2 pm.
Officials said the move was necessary as a judicial magistrate had sent Musharraf on "transit remand" following his arrest this morning.
Under the rules, transit remand is meant only for transferring an accused from one court to another, and a person on transit remand must be held in a police station till he is produced in court.
However, police took Musharraf back to his farmhouse after his appearance before the judicial magistrate due to security concerns.
Police officials felt it would not be safe to take Musharraf to any police station in view of the threats to his life.
Though police had asked for Musharraf to be remanded to judicial custody, the magistrate said he did not have the jurisdiction to do this as the Islamabad High Court had directed that he should be charged under the Anti-Terrorism Act for detaining more than 60 judges during the 2007 emergency.
The magistrate sent Musharraf on transit remand for two days and directed police to approach an anti-terrorism court to seek judicial custody.
The nearest anti-terrorism courts are in Rawalpindi and police were unable to approach them today.
Officials then decided in the afternoon to move Musharraf to the police headquarters, a high-security complex that is better protected than police stations.
It is expected that Musharraf will be produced in an anti-terrorism court tomorrow.
The Law Ministry issued a notification today for setting up an anti-terrorism court in Islamabad.
Sources told PTI that after Musharraf is produced in the anti-terrorism court, a move can be initiated to declare his farmhouse a "sub-jail" so that he can be detained there.
Confusion has surrounded the steps taken by police and the caretaker administration since a judge of the Islamabad High Court revoked Musharraf's bail and ordered his arrest yesterday.
Despite the presence of a large police contingent, Musharraf and his security detailed managed to flee from the court complex.
Throughout the day yesterday, police officials were reluctant to act on the court's order to arrest Musharraf, apparently because they did not want to annoy the powerful military by acting against a former army chief.
Caretaker Interior Minister Malik Habib Khan informed the Senate or upper house of parliament this morning that Musharraf's residence had been declared a "sub-jail" though it subsequently emerged that no formal notification had been issued in this regard by the Islamabad Commissioner.
Other members of the caretaker government sought to distance themselves from the issue of Musharraf, saying the interim administration had the limited mandate of conducting free and fair polls.
Musharraf's return to Pakistan after nearly four years in self-exile has also led to complications for the current army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, who may have to decide whether to intervene to protect the former President from being humiliated.
Boston marathon bombers identified as Chechnyan brothers..........
Boston: Two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing who also killed an MIT police officer, were identified by agencies as natives of the Russian region near Chechnya, which has been plagued by an Islamic insurgency stemming from separatist wars. One of the two brothers died after their night-long getaway during which they injured a transit officer and threw explosive devices at cops.
Authorities have launched a manhunt intensified for the surviving bomber who has been identified as Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev—a 19-year-old who has been living in Cambridge, just outside Boston—and recognised as a dangerous terrorist.
Law enforcement officials told agenices that Tsarnaev and the other unidentified suspect, had been living legally in the US for at least one year.
In Boston, still on edge over the attack on the marathon, and its western suburbs, authorities suspended mass transit and urged people to stay indoors as they searched for the remaining suspect, a man seen wearing a white baseball cap on surveillance footage from Monday's deadly bombing at the marathon finish line.
"We believe this man to be a terrorist," said Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis. "We believe this to be a man who's come here to kill people.".
Authorities urged residents in Watertown, Newton, Arlington, Waltham, Belmont, Cambridge and the Allston-Brighton neighborhoods of Boston to stay indoors. At least a quarter of a million people live in those suburbs. All mass transit was shut down, and businesses were asked not to open Friday. People waiting at bus and subway stops were told to go home.
The shutdown came hours after the killing of one suspect, known as the man in the black hat from marathon surveillance footage.
All modes of public transportation were shut down, including buses, subways, trolleys, commuter rail and boats, said Joe Pesaturo, spokesman for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.
The suspects' clashes with police began only a few hours after the FBI released photos and videos of the two young men, who were seen carrying backpacks as they mingled among marathon revelers. The bombings on Monday killed three people and wounded more than 180 others, and authorities revealed the images to enlist the public's help finding the suspects.
The images released by the FBI depict two young men, each wearing a baseball cap, walking one behind the other near the finish line. Richard DesLauriers, FBI agent in charge in Boston, said the suspect in the white hat was seen setting down a bag at the site of the second of two deadly explosions.
Authorities said surveillance tape recorded late Thursday showed the suspect known for the white hat during a robbery of a convenience store in Cambridge, near the campus of MIT, where a university police officer was killed while responding to a report of a disturbance, said State Police Col Timothy Alben. The officer died of multiple gunshot wounds.
From there, authorities say, the two men carjacked a man in a Mercedes-Benz, keeping him with them in the car for half an hour before releasing him at a gas station in Cambridge. The man was not injured.
The search for the vehicle led to a chase that ended in Watertown, where authorities said the suspects threw explosive devices from the car and exchanged gunfire with police. A transit police officer was seriously injured during the chase, authorities said.
In Watertown, witnesses reported hearing multiple gunshots and explosions at about 1 a.m. Friday. Dozens of police officers and FBI agents were in the neighborhood and a helicopter circled overhead.
Watertown resident Christine Yajko said she was awakened at about 1:30 a.m. by a loud noise, began to walk to her kitchen and heard gunfire.
"I heard the explosion, so I stepped back from that area, then I went back out and heard a second one," she said. "It was very loud. It shook the house a little."
She said a police officer later knocked on her door and told her there was an undetonated improvised explosive device in the street and warned her to stay away from the windows.
"It was on the street, right near our kitchen window," she said.
Yajko said she never saw the suspect who was on the loose and didn't realize the violence was related to the marathon bombings until she turned on the TV and began watching what was happening outside her side door.
State police spokesman David Procopio said, "The incident in Watertown did involve what we believe to be explosive devices possibly, potentially, being used against the police officers."
Boston cab driver Imran Saif said he was standing on a street corner at a police barricade across from a diner when he heard an explosion.
"I heard a loud boom and then a rapid succession of pop, pop, pop," he said. "It sounded like automatic weapons. And then I heard the second explosion."
He said he could smell something burning and advanced to check it out but area residents at their windows yelled at him, "Hey, it's gunfire! Don't go that way!"
Doctors at a Boston hospital where a suspect in the marathon bombings was taken and later died are saying they treated a man with a possible blast injury and multiple gunshot wounds.
MIT said right after the 10:30 p.m. shooting that police were sweeping the campus in Cambridge and urged people to remain indoors. They urged people urged to stay away from the Stata Center, a mixed-use building with faculty offices, classrooms and a common area.
The suspects' images were released hours after President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama attended an interfaith service in Boston to remember the dead and the wounded.
At the Cathedral of the Holy Cross, Obama saluted the resolve of the people of Boston and mocked the bombers as "these small, stunted individuals who would destroy instead of build and think somehow that makes them important."
"We will find you," he warned.
In the past, insurgents from Chechnya and neighboring restive provinces in the Caucasus have been involved in terror attacks in Moscow and other places in Russia.
Those raids included a raid in Moscow in October 2002 in which a group of Chechen militants took 800 people hostage and held them for two days before special forces stormed the building, killing all 41 Chechen hostage-takers. Also killed were 129 hostages, mostly from effects of narcotic gas Russian forces used to subdue the attackers.
Chechen insurgents also launched a 2004 hostage-taking raid in the southern Russian town of Beslan, where they took hundreds of hostages. The siege ended in a bloodbath two days later, with more than 330 people, about half of them children, killed.
Insurgents from Chechnya and other regions also have launched a long series of bombings in Moscow and other cities in Russia. An explosion at the international arrivals hall at Moscow's Domodedovo airport in January 2011 killed at least 31 people and wounded more than 140.
Authorities have launched a manhunt intensified for the surviving bomber who has been identified as Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev—a 19-year-old who has been living in Cambridge, just outside Boston—and recognised as a dangerous terrorist.
Law enforcement officials told agenices that Tsarnaev and the other unidentified suspect, had been living legally in the US for at least one year.
In Boston, still on edge over the attack on the marathon, and its western suburbs, authorities suspended mass transit and urged people to stay indoors as they searched for the remaining suspect, a man seen wearing a white baseball cap on surveillance footage from Monday's deadly bombing at the marathon finish line.
"We believe this man to be a terrorist," said Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis. "We believe this to be a man who's come here to kill people.".
Authorities urged residents in Watertown, Newton, Arlington, Waltham, Belmont, Cambridge and the Allston-Brighton neighborhoods of Boston to stay indoors. At least a quarter of a million people live in those suburbs. All mass transit was shut down, and businesses were asked not to open Friday. People waiting at bus and subway stops were told to go home.
The shutdown came hours after the killing of one suspect, known as the man in the black hat from marathon surveillance footage.
All modes of public transportation were shut down, including buses, subways, trolleys, commuter rail and boats, said Joe Pesaturo, spokesman for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.
The suspects' clashes with police began only a few hours after the FBI released photos and videos of the two young men, who were seen carrying backpacks as they mingled among marathon revelers. The bombings on Monday killed three people and wounded more than 180 others, and authorities revealed the images to enlist the public's help finding the suspects.
The images released by the FBI depict two young men, each wearing a baseball cap, walking one behind the other near the finish line. Richard DesLauriers, FBI agent in charge in Boston, said the suspect in the white hat was seen setting down a bag at the site of the second of two deadly explosions.
Authorities said surveillance tape recorded late Thursday showed the suspect known for the white hat during a robbery of a convenience store in Cambridge, near the campus of MIT, where a university police officer was killed while responding to a report of a disturbance, said State Police Col Timothy Alben. The officer died of multiple gunshot wounds.
From there, authorities say, the two men carjacked a man in a Mercedes-Benz, keeping him with them in the car for half an hour before releasing him at a gas station in Cambridge. The man was not injured.
The search for the vehicle led to a chase that ended in Watertown, where authorities said the suspects threw explosive devices from the car and exchanged gunfire with police. A transit police officer was seriously injured during the chase, authorities said.
In Watertown, witnesses reported hearing multiple gunshots and explosions at about 1 a.m. Friday. Dozens of police officers and FBI agents were in the neighborhood and a helicopter circled overhead.
Watertown resident Christine Yajko said she was awakened at about 1:30 a.m. by a loud noise, began to walk to her kitchen and heard gunfire.
"I heard the explosion, so I stepped back from that area, then I went back out and heard a second one," she said. "It was very loud. It shook the house a little."
She said a police officer later knocked on her door and told her there was an undetonated improvised explosive device in the street and warned her to stay away from the windows.
"It was on the street, right near our kitchen window," she said.
Yajko said she never saw the suspect who was on the loose and didn't realize the violence was related to the marathon bombings until she turned on the TV and began watching what was happening outside her side door.
State police spokesman David Procopio said, "The incident in Watertown did involve what we believe to be explosive devices possibly, potentially, being used against the police officers."
Boston cab driver Imran Saif said he was standing on a street corner at a police barricade across from a diner when he heard an explosion.
"I heard a loud boom and then a rapid succession of pop, pop, pop," he said. "It sounded like automatic weapons. And then I heard the second explosion."
He said he could smell something burning and advanced to check it out but area residents at their windows yelled at him, "Hey, it's gunfire! Don't go that way!"
Doctors at a Boston hospital where a suspect in the marathon bombings was taken and later died are saying they treated a man with a possible blast injury and multiple gunshot wounds.
MIT said right after the 10:30 p.m. shooting that police were sweeping the campus in Cambridge and urged people to remain indoors. They urged people urged to stay away from the Stata Center, a mixed-use building with faculty offices, classrooms and a common area.
The suspects' images were released hours after President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama attended an interfaith service in Boston to remember the dead and the wounded.
At the Cathedral of the Holy Cross, Obama saluted the resolve of the people of Boston and mocked the bombers as "these small, stunted individuals who would destroy instead of build and think somehow that makes them important."
"We will find you," he warned.
In the past, insurgents from Chechnya and neighboring restive provinces in the Caucasus have been involved in terror attacks in Moscow and other places in Russia.
Those raids included a raid in Moscow in October 2002 in which a group of Chechen militants took 800 people hostage and held them for two days before special forces stormed the building, killing all 41 Chechen hostage-takers. Also killed were 129 hostages, mostly from effects of narcotic gas Russian forces used to subdue the attackers.
Chechen insurgents also launched a 2004 hostage-taking raid in the southern Russian town of Beslan, where they took hundreds of hostages. The siege ended in a bloodbath two days later, with more than 330 people, about half of them children, killed.
Insurgents from Chechnya and other regions also have launched a long series of bombings in Moscow and other cities in Russia. An explosion at the international arrivals hall at Moscow's Domodedovo airport in January 2011 killed at least 31 people and wounded more than 140.
Former England captain Denness dies........
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Mike Denness, the former Kent and England captain, has died at the age of 72 after a battle with cancer.
Born in Scotland, he played 28 Tests and 12 one-day internationals in a career that spanned 22 years. He later became an ICC match referee.
Denness is the only Scotsman to have captained England and led the team in 19 of his 28 Tests although it was a controversial tenure, especially his strained relationship with Geoff Boycott. During the 1974-75 tour of Australia, Denness dropped himselffor the fourth Test in Sydney although he later returned, after an injury to John Edrich, to score 188 at the MCG which, at the time, was the highest score by an England captain in Australia.
In his first-class career, where he played for Kent and Essex, he scored more than 25,000 runs. He was awarded an OBE in the New Year's Honours list for services to cricket.
George Kennedy, the Kent chairman, said: "This is an extremely sad day for the Club. We have lost one of our great players, a very successful captain and a good friend. It is particularly sad that this has happened during his year as president - a period when the club had two Scotsman at the helm. Our thoughts are with Mike's family and friends at this time."
Matthew Fleming, the former Kent captain, called Denness part of the "fabric" of Kent. "While I never saw him play, to me, Mike represented so much that is great about Kent Cricket and its history and its place in the game," he said. "There are so many great men of cricket who have represented Kent: Colin Cowdrey, Les Ames, Derek Underwood, Brian Luckhurst, John Shepherd to name just a few, and Mike Denness stands alongside the likes of those men in terms of the true greats of Kent cricket history.
"Mike was part of the fabric of Kent cricket, despite being a Scotsman, and as someone with Scottish blood too, I would have no hesitation in saying that the game of cricket in general has lost a very significant figure."
Denness made his Test debut in 1969 against New Zealand, at The Oval, but it was not until 1974 that he scored his maiden hundred against India. By then he was England captain and had led the team to a drawn series in West Indies after a 26-run victory in the final Test at Port-of-Spain.
He was in his final week as Kent president when he passed away and his successor, Bob Bevan, remembered a close friend. "Michael Henry Denness was the finest cricketer ever born in Scotland by a considerable distance. Both on and off the field, he epitomised the cricketing term "playing a straight bat".
"He was a man of the utmost honesty and integrity. The cricketing counties of Kent and Essex, the whole world of cricket and my wife and I, personally, have lost one of our greatest friends."
On the county scene, Denness led Kent to great success early in the one-day era. He secured six domestic trophies as captain between 1972 and 1976 - the John Player League three times, the Benson and Hedges Cup twice, and the Gillette Cup in 1974.
His time as an ICC match referee was hit with controversy when, at Port Elizabeth in 2001-02, his decision to sanction six Indian players, including Sachin Tendulkar, caused such a furore that the Indian and South African boards barred Denness from officiating in the next match, at Centurion. The ICC responded by withdrawing Test status from the game.
A funny Analogy........
If International Cricketers were university
Students?
Misbah & Saeed Ajmal - Students who
entered college during their retirement
age, but still excelling in their favouritesubjects (Batting & Bowling respectively).
Kamran Akmal - after paper he realizes he
missed half of the questions.
Afridi - A Student who gets Rusticated, but
is allowed to take the final exams.
Rahul Dravid - University Topper
Sehwag - the student who does not study
at all, but is able to score decent marks in
exams
Dhoni - the student who doesn't score too
much in the class tests, but comes in the
top 3 in the final exams
Ravindra Jadeja - A unique student who
gained Bachelors/Masters and PHD in one
semester itself.
Tendulkar - hes a professor, not a student
in the university.
nehra-always help others in exams and get caught and get punished
Students?
Misbah & Saeed Ajmal - Students who
entered college during their retirement
age, but still excelling in their favouritesubjects (Batting & Bowling respectively).
Kamran Akmal - after paper he realizes he
missed half of the questions.
Afridi - A Student who gets Rusticated, but
is allowed to take the final exams.
Rahul Dravid - University Topper
Sehwag - the student who does not study
at all, but is able to score decent marks in
exams
Dhoni - the student who doesn't score too
much in the class tests, but comes in the
top 3 in the final exams
Ravindra Jadeja - A unique student who
gained Bachelors/Masters and PHD in one
semester itself.
Tendulkar - hes a professor, not a student
in the university.
nehra-always help others in exams and get caught and get punished
happy sriramanavami to all my viewers........
Ram Navami (Devanāgarī: राम नवमी) also known as Sri Ram Navami (IAST SriRām-navamī) is a Hindu festival, celebrating the birth of Lord Rama to King Dasharatha and Queen Kausalya of Ayodhya. Ram is the 7th incarnation of the Dashavatara of Vishnu. The festival falls in the Shukla Paksha on the Navami, the ninth day of the month of Chaitra in the Hindu calendar. Thus it is also known as Chaitra Masa Suklapaksha Navami, and marks the end of the nine-day Chaitra-Navratri celebrations.
శ్రీ రామ నవమి శుభాకాంక్షలు !
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